Jewelry-display rack.



No. 646,630. Patented Apr. 3, I900. 0. L. WATSON.

JEWELRY DISPLAY BACK.

(Application filed Aug. 21, 1899.) (No Model.)

WITNEESEE O5. 2%. AM,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE L. l/VATSON, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE VATSON & NEWELL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

JEWELRY-DISPLAY RACK.-

SPEOIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 646,630, dated April 3, 1900. Application filed August 21, 1899. Serial No. 727,883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARENCE L. WATSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attleborough, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in J ewelry-Display Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in display-cards used to exhibit jewelry; and it consists in the peculiar and novel construction whereby sleeve-buttons and similar articles may be supported to exhibit all parts of the same and may be conveniently removed, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a plan View of the blank of cardboard or similar material adapted to be folded into a pyramidical rack. Fig. 2 is a top view, and Fig. 3 a transverse sectional View, of the folded rack. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a blank, showing a modified form of openings for the reception of the jewelry.

In the drawings, A indicates a blank of cardboard or similar material, and a a slots having parallel sides extending from the end margins of the blank A to the openings or holes a a, so that the connecting-links of sleeve-buttons or similar articles of jewelry may be entered. As shown in Fig. 4, the slots may be formed withinclined sides,whi-ch meet at a point, so as to retard the insertion or removal of the articles of jewelry. The blank is creased at b b and also at b to facilitate the folding of the same into the triangular rack. The central part A of the blank forms the base of the rack, and the parts A A? the inclined sides, as shown in Fig. 8, in which the blank is shown as bent on the creases b 1) into pointed angles to form the base of the rack, and the crease b along the center of the blank is bent into an obtuse angle, so as to lift the bottom of the rack and secure a better support at the edges along the creases b b. The margins b b of the blank are brought together at the apex of the triangle. On these racks the sleeve-buttons c and similar articles of jewelry are secured by insert- Myimproved j ewelry-display rack occupies less room in a show-case than display-cards as heretofore used, as the horizontally-extending margins of the former display-cards are 'not required. The goods are exposed at an inclined angle, are in better light, and may be more readily removed from or secured to the rack.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A j ewelry-display rack of approximately triangular cross-section formed of a-sheet by folding the opposite parts of the sheet iri' ward to form the inclined sides of the trian-' gle and having the inclined sides provided with openings connected by slots with the ends of the rack; whereby jewelry may be inserted from the opposite ends of the rack, as described.

2. In a jewelry-display rack, the combination with the blank A adapted to be folded into an approximately-triangular rack having the base A and the inclined sides A A a of the openings a a for the reception of the jewelry, with the slots (1 a connecting the openings with the ends of the rack, as de scribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CLARENCE L. WATSON.

Witnesses:

J. A. MILLER, J r., B. M. SIMMs. 

